Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] how [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked them how old she was ? |
| 2 | But when I asked him how much of the land of the state of Israel might potentially have two claimants — an Arab and a Jew holding respectively a British mandate and an Israeli deed to the same property — he said he figure was accurate — and it should be remembered that over half of Israel in 1948 consisted of the Negev desert — then it suggested that Arabs owned a far greater proportion of that part of Palestine which became Israel than has previously been imagined . |
| 3 | I asked him how much was remaining in his tanks . |
| 4 | He wanted to know why , so I asked him how much he knew about me . |
| 5 | I first talked about the war with my father on a train outside Bognor Regis , when I asked him how many Germans he had killed . |
| 6 | I asked him how many houses had been completed in 1991 , and I will tell him the answer . |
| 7 | I asked him how good his pianissimo was . |
| 8 | I asked her how much writing she had lately done , and she laughed , and said she was learning so much , so very much , and when it was all learned she should have new matter to write about and many new things to say . |
| 9 | When Sal stopped sobbing , I asked her how much she remembered about the accident . |
| 10 | Well I asked her how much you owed and she said thirty one ninety five |
| 11 | When I asked her how easy or difficult she had found the exercise , Sylvia told me that she had been quite surprised at how simple it had been . |
| 12 | No sooner had I equipped Gillian and her Squire with a cup of Formosa Oolong than I asked her how old she was , what she did , and whether her parents were still alive . |
| 13 | Well sometimes when I was asking you things like erm say if I asked you how many quarters to make a whole one ? |
| 14 | Dead before I knew it was not my anger killed her , dead before I told her how much I loved her . |
| 15 | I told her how much I disliked Katherine Mansfield as a personality , and she faintly rebuked me : ‘ What I feel is that we should be so grateful to her . ’ |
| 16 | I told them how some years ago we in Scotland had not co-operated with the media . |
| 17 | He two-putted and we hugged and I told him how proud I was . |
| 18 | He seemed pleased when I told him how much I appreciated such poems as ‘ Cool Tombs ’ , ‘ The Hangman ’ , ‘ Kalamazoo ’ , ‘ Chicago — Hog Butcher ’ , and his later volume ‘ Good Morning , America ’ . |
| 19 | I told him how much pleasure it gave me to think of him in charge of the school next year . |
| 20 | A few years later I told him how much I loved his way of telling stories . |
| 21 | I told him how uneasy I had become when I was approached or touched by anyone . |
| 22 | I told him how happy I was to be back in his country . |
| 23 | I reminded her how fragile it was . |
| 24 | Merely because I reminded him how unlikely he was to catch an heiress . ’ |
| 25 | Why would I liked it how funny ! |